Echo
Des Plaines River is a site of new impediments to voracious species
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The project is meant to help prevent catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes fishery.
Solutions
Michigan’s list of birds at risk updated for first time since 2009
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Among the species that newly receive threatened status are the Eastern whip-poor-will, evening grosbeak, golden-winged warbler, Northern goshawk, spruce grouse and upland sandpiper.
Echo
Creating habitat to help fish reproduce is costlier, but more effective than restoring it
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Habitat restoration can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, years of time and the collaborative effort of engineers, scientists and designers. It may be better to just start from scratch.
Echo
New book for tree lovers is rooted in memory
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The idea for the book came from a little notebook into which Dunphy writes what occupies her mind.
Echo
Waukegan activists get federal grant to test for EtO that causes cancer
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Activists from Stop EtO established the nonprofit Lake County Environmental Works and got $270,000 to test the air for EtO.
Recreation
Michigan’s Magnet Man attracts river trash
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The heaviest thing that he has found is a full-sized safe in the Rouge River in Delray, Michigan, taking seven people with magnets and hooks to pull it out.
Water
Detroiters can get another 1,125 gallons of water under discount program
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Detroit water rates have gone up 407% over the last 20 years, and 120% in just the last 10 years.
Echo
New book connects the environment with a love of dogs
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They’re drawn to it because of some personal connection to whether it be the neighborhood they grew up in, the forest they’ve walked in, the lakes [where] they’ve smoked salmon. So it’s a natural thing to tie environmental matters to personal experiences.
Echo
Gardening with a whole community could reduce violent crimes in neighborhoods, study says
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Cleaning up and greening the lots helps to reduce violence. That effect improves when the local community is engaged in those activities instead of having the lots professionally mowed
Echo
Vet care needed for pets of homeless owners
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There’s a lot of people out there that, if they had to choose to go into homelessness with or without their pet, they would take that pet with them, because they’re part of their family.